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Sociolinguistics from the Periphery "presents a fascinating book about change: shifting political, economic and cultural conditions; ephemeral, sometimes even seasonal, multilingualism; and altered imaginaries for minority and indigenous languages and their users."

The papers comprising this volume focus on a broad range of acquisitionphenomena (subject dislocation, structural case, word order, determiners,pronouns, quantifiers and logical words) from different languages andlanguage combinations. These include languages with large numbers ofspeakers (French, German, Spanish) and less frequently spoken ones(Norwegian, Russian, Swiss-German, Hebrew, Basque and Serbo-Croatian)within different language acquisition scenarios and a wide range ofpopulations. Most contributions adopt a common theoretical backgroundwithin the generative approach with the aim to advance, discuss andcritically analyse other research on first, bilingual and language impairedacquisition. The various sections of this stimulating volume reflectdifferent theoretical and methodological perspectives of current researchinvestigating morphology and syntax and offer diverging interpretations.